Sentences with 'shahs'
Example sentences and phrases with the word shahs and other words derived from it.
• « Unfortunately for the regime (and the Iranian economy), the shahs that followed Abbas I were a litany of incompetence. »
• « The Qajar shahs (kings) were also unable to resist the encroachment of European powers as they expanded their influence in Central Asia. »
• « For most of the 19th century, Britain and Russia were the two European powers that most often vied with each other for power in Persia, and the Qajar shahs (kings) repeatedly tried and failed to play the European rivals off against each other in the name of Persian independence. »